This course is designed to introduce potential language teachers to general issues and current developments in bi/multilingual approaches to language education. The first part of the course focuses on individual bi/multilingualism. It will examine the basics of how bi/multilingualism is defined and measured, types of bi/multilingualism, and bi/multilingual language behaviors. The second part of the course explores foundations of bi/multilingual language education. Topics include second language versus bilingual acquisition, bilingualism and cognition, and bilingual education for bilingualism and biliteracy. The third part of the course focuses on pedagogical issues and practices in bi/multilingual language education. We will discuss the uses and roles of translation in language teaching, translanguaging in pedagogy, and mixed code and classroom code-switching, with special attention given to the teaching of Chinese and English in the context of Hong Kong. For MA(ILE) students or students with program director or course instructor's approval only.